Journal of Dental Research Dental Clinics Dental Prospects (JODDD) is a Platinum*Open Access, peer-reviewed quarterly indexed journal that publishes articles of basic, clinical, and prospective nature in all
areas of dentistry and oral health.

Updated October 2018

Submission Guidelines

Submissions to Journal of Dental Research, Dental Clinics, Dental Prospects are accepted through our online submission system. To streamline the process, the online submission system is designed to perform a series of automatic controls, promptly informing the user of any technical insufficiencies, and directing to the relevant instructions.

To start submission, please create an account and log in. The submitting author will take responsibility on behalf of all co-authors as the corresponding author of the submission, and is required to enter full details including a working e-mail address, phone number and address, in their online profile. All correspondence, including, but not limited to, the results of initial evaluation, Editor’s decision, and request for revisions or proofreading will be sent to the e-mail address of the corresponding author, which will be published with the article.

The submission or any subsequent revision is evaluated at the editorial office, and if corrections are necessary, it may be temporarily unsubmitted and returned to the authors, who are responsible for formatting their submission and providing the required information. Please see our editorial workflow for more information. For further help regarding submission, you may contact the editorial office.

We use iThenticate software in the processing of the submissions.

1. The conditions of submission

Platinum Open Access

Journal of Dental Research, Dental Clinics, Dental Prospects is a Platinum Open Access journal. As such, there are no submission fees or article processing charges for authors submitting their paper to the Journal of Dental Research, Dental Clinics, Dental Prospects, the open access publication of which is subsidized by Tabriz University of Medical Sciences Department of Vice Chancellor for Research & Technology. Please see our open access and copyright policy for more information.

Publication license and copyright

Upon submission, the authors are required to sign a license form for
open access publication of their work in the journal, granting the right
to TUOMS Publishing Group to identify itself as the
original publisher of the article. The authors agree to the publication
of their article under the Creative Commons license 4.0 (CC-BY) while
retaining the copyright to their work. Please see our open access and copyright policy and license agreement (PDF - 80 KB) for more information.

Cover letter

A cover letter is required for every submission. The authors will need to confirm the following conditions in the submission cover letter:

That the submission is original, submitted solely to this journal, and not currently under consideration for publication or already published elsewhere, unless explained in the submission cover letter. See our editorial policies on duplicate publication.

That the submitting author takes responsibility for the submission on behalf of all authors as the corresponding author.

That all authors have reviewed, approved, and consented to the submission, and they are accountable for all aspects of its accuracy and integrity in accordance with ICMJE criteria.

The submission cover letter should also include the following information, as well as any additional information requested in the instructions for the specific article type that the authors are submitting:

An explanation of why the submitted work should be published in the journal (the novelty of the work).

An explanation of any issues relating to journal policies.

A declaration of any potential competing interests.

The name of particular special issue that the submission should be published in.

The authors may also suggest potential peer reviewers for their submission by providing name, institutional email addresses, and an ORCID or Scopus ID. Please see our editorial policies for more information on suggesting peer reviewers. Please also see our editorial policies regarding the use of unique identifiers.

The authors may also provide the details of anyone who they would prefer not to review their work.

Intentionally providing falsifying information, such as false names or email addresses, will result in rejection of the submission and may lead to further investigation in line with our misconduct policy.

2. Preparing the submission

Preparing the manuscript

For general instructions, please see preparing the manuscript. Journal of Dental Research, Dental Clinics, Dental Prospects publishes these article types:

Research article: Original and unpublished work resulting from research, constituting complete studies that contain all relevant information so that the reader may reproduce the study or evaluate its results and conclusions. Including systematic review and meta-analysis. Prepare the manuscript as follows: A Title, a Structured Abstract, Key words, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, References, Tables, Legend for figures, Figures (upload separately), List of additional files.

Short communication: Original work, but less substantial than the regular research article, presenting preliminary results, or results of immediate relevance. Prepare the manuscript as follows: A Title, a Structured Abstract, Key words, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, References, Tables, Legend for figures, Figures (upload separately), List of additional files.

Letter: Comments or concerns on specific subjects; overall or pertaining to items published in the journal. Also, new or additional findings of original nature. Prepare the letter as follows: A Title, Text, References, maximum one Table/Figure.

Editorial: The Journal’s editors write the editorial.

Title

A concise descriptive title should be chosen for the submission. Do not capitalize all words; only the first word and proper nouns should be capitalized. Include the type of the study (meta-analysis, systematic review, cohort, case report, etc.) in the title with a colon (:).

Abstract

The structured abstract (maximum 250 words) is to contain the following major subheadings: Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusion. The Background subheading reflects the background as well as the purpose of the study, that is, the hypothesis being tested. The Methods should include the setting for the study, the subjects (number and type), the treatment or intervention, and the type of statistical analysis. The Results include the outcome of the study and statistical significance if appropriate. The Conclusion states the significance of the results. Clinical trials should include the trial registration number on the last line of the abstract.

The unstructured abstract (maximum 150 words) does not contain subheadings.

A graphical abstract is preferred for submissions. The graphical abstract is an visual image of the summary of the key information of the work. The recommended image size is 900 pixels (width) by 500 pixel (height).

Key words

Three to 10 key words for each submission should be selected from the list of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) available at https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html. List key words in alphabetic order, all lower case, except where necessary.

Introduction

The introduction contains a concise review of the subject area and the rationale for the study. More detailed comparisons to previous work and conclusions of the study appear in the Discussion section.

Methods

The methods section should describe in adequate detail the experimental subjects, their important characteristics, and the methods, apparatus, and procedures used so that other researchers can reproduce the experiment.

When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, the authors must explain the rationale for their approach and demonstrate that the institutional review body explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study. When reporting experiments on animals, authors should indicate whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.

The methods section must indicate that the protocol was reviewed by the appropriate institutional review body and that each subject in the project signed a detailed informed consent form.

Results

Results should be presented in a logical sequence with reference to tables, figures, and illustrations as appropriate.

Discussion

New and possible findings of the study should be emphasized, as well as any conclusions that can be drawn. The discussion should compare the present data to previous findings. Limitations of the experimental methods should be indicated, as should implications for future research. New hypotheses and clinical recommendations are appropriate and should be clearly identified. Recommendations, particularly clinical ones, may be included when appropriate.

To correctly prepare the references, equations, tables, figures, or additional files for a submission to the Journal of Dental Research, Dental Clinics, Dental Prospects, please follow these guidelines:

Smaller tables that are considered integral to the manuscript can be pasted at the end of the manuscript file in A4 portrait or landscape format. Larger tables may be uploaded separately as Additional Files. Please see preparing tables for more instructions.

Figures must be submitted separately in a proper format. Please see preparing figures for more instructions.

Datasets, large tables, videos, or other information must be submitted separately as additional files, which will be published along with the article. Please seepreparing additional files for more instructions.

3. Providing the required information

The authors should have the required information below ready upon submission. The manuscript should not include this information to ensure a blind peer-review. Please see our editorial policies for more information regarding peer review policy. The supporting information will be reviewed by the editor.

Author information

Full names and email addresses of all authors, as well as their affiliations and institutional addresses are requested during submission. Providing the unique identifier (ORCiD) of each co-author is preferred for all submissions. For each submission, providing the unique identifiers for the first and the corresponding co-authors is minimum requirement. Please see our editorial policies on authorship and unique identifiers for more information. If a collaboration group should be listed as an author, please list the group name as an author.

Acknowledgments

In an “Acknowledgments”
section, the authors are required to acknowledge anyone who contributed
to the submitted work who does not meet the criteria for authorship. It
is obligatory to state any support with translating or editing by third
parties such as professional commercial writing/editing services. The
authors should obtain permission to acknowledge from all those mentioned
in the Acknowledgments section.

Please see our editorial policies for further explanation of authorship criteria and acknowledgments.

Authors' contributions

In an “Authors’ contributions” section, the authors are required to explain the contribution of each co-author in the conception or design of the work; the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; and drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content.

Funding

The authors are required to declare all sources of funding for the research reported. The role of the funding body in the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript should be declared.

Competing interests

The authors are required to declare all financial and non-financial competing interests with regards to the publication of their work during submission. Please see our editorial policies for more information on competing interests. If any of the authors are unsure whether they have a competing interest, they should contact the editorial office.

Ethics approval and consent to participate

Authors of submissions reporting studies involving human participants, human data, or human tissues are required to provide the following information:

A statement on ethics approval and consent (even where the need for approval was waived).

The name of the ethics committee that approved the study and the committee’s reference number if appropriate.

Submissions reporting studies involving animals must include a statement on ethics approval.

If the submission does not report on or involve the use of any animals or human data or tissues, please state “Not applicable” in this section.

Consent to publish

If the submission contains any individual person’s data in any form, consent to publish must be obtained from that person, or in the case of children, their parent or legal guardian. All presentations of case reports must have consent to publish. The authors may use their institutional consent form. The form is not to be sent on submission, but we may request to see a copy at any stage (including after publication).

If the submission does not contain any individual person’s data, please state “Not applicable” in this section.

4. Finalizing submission

The submitting author may finalize the submitting process using “Submit” button. After this stage, the authors will not be able to modify their submission, unless required and authorized by the journal.

5. Revising the submission

Any subsequent revisions to the submission upon request from the editor will have to follow the same guidelines presented here.

Upon submitting a revised submission, the authors will be guided to provide revision details, based on the comments raised by the reviewers. The revision details, too, should not include author information to ensure a blind peer review.

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Visual Abstract

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Platinum* Open Access

*This Platinum Open Access journal publishes articles totally free of charge for the authors and provides unrestricted access to the published content through its website and open access repositories such as PubMed Central.